Earthquakes, and meteors. I never thought I would see all this happen in real life during my life time.Also, it is scary to think how much effect and damage the meteor would have had if it had fallen on large cities like NY and tokyo.

How the heck they missed this meteor and we didn't heared something by someone official from the goverment ro something similar?

Because most governments in the world are more interested in petty squabbles and posturing than they are in helping us reach the next level of societal development- the awareness of what goes on in the vacuum around our planet and the ability to affect it.

Angie7F:Earthquakes, and meteors. I never thought I would see all this happen in real life during my life time.Also, it is scary to think how much effect and damage the meteor would have had if it had fallen on large cities like NY and tokyo.

Not much of an effect I would presume seeing as the meteorites were only 1-3 meters in diameter. Pretty bad to have fall in your backyard but nothing that will mess up an entire city.

How the heck they missed this meteor and we didn't heared something by someone official from the goverment ro something similar?

Apparently, it came from the direction of the sun and it's much more difficult to detect them in that case. We mostly detect only those coming from the direction of the night sky.If aliens want to attack us, that's where they should be coming from.

Angie7F:Earthquakes, and meteors. I never thought I would see all this happen in real life during my life time.Also, it is scary to think how much effect and damage the meteor would have had if it had fallen on large cities like NY and tokyo.

Not much of an effect I would presume seeing as the meteorites were only 1-3 meters in diameter. Pretty bad to have fall in your backyard but nothing that will mess up an entire city.

The 45 m in diameter that passes by tonight would be worse.

But according to Roskosmos (Russian "NASA"), the rock was moving at 30 km/s or at 108000 km/h.There's a shitton of kinetic energy stored in that.

Angie7F:Earthquakes, and meteors. I never thought I would see all this happen in real life during my life time.Also, it is scary to think how much effect and damage the meteor would have had if it had fallen on large cities like NY and tokyo.

Not much of an effect I would presume seeing as the meteorites were only 1-3 meters in diameter. Pretty bad to have fall in your backyard but nothing that will mess up an entire city.

The 45 m in diameter that passes by tonight would be worse.

But according to Roskosmos (Russian "NASA"), the rock was moving at 30 km/s or at 108000 km/h.There's a shitton of kinetic energy stored in that.

Was that when it entered the atmosphere, or when it hit the ground, though?

Ouch! That's fucking freaky! Actually, scratch that. What's really fucking freaky is that this meteorite was separate from the big one that's bypassing the Earth today and had been all over the news for the past week. If they couldn't detect the Russian meteorite and it's sonic boom caused that much damage and injury, I don't even wanna think about what might have happened if it was the big one.

Some of these videos are insane.I couldn't imagine seeing something like that in person. It's pretty amazing how quick it was from the time it appeared to when it hit. I got a kick noticing how in the videos with them driving nobody pulled over or slammed on their brakes, they just kept on doing their thing like meteors fall from the sky every day in Russia.If that happened in the US there would be more injuries from the car accidents than the impact.

roushutsu:Ouch! That's fucking freaky! Actually, scratch that. What's really fucking freaky is that this meteorite was separate from the big one that's bypassing the Earth today and had been all over the news for the past week. If they couldn't detect the Russian meteorite and it's sonic boom caused that much damage and injury, I don't even wanna think about what might have happened if it was the big one.

Scientists have played down suggestions that there is any link between the event in the Urals and 2012 DA14, an asteroid expected to race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200 miles) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.

Prof Alan Fitzsimmons, of the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast, said there was "almost definitely" no connection.

"One reason is that 2012 DA14 is approaching Earth from the south, and this object hit in the northern hemisphere," he told BBC News.

"This is literally a cosmic coincidence, although a spectacular one."

Such meteor strikes are rare in Russia but one is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2,000 sq km (1,250m) in Siberia in 1908.

I think if I was driving that car I would have pulled over, dived in a ditch and awaited the end of times.

I read a description of what a extinction event level meteor would do. If you were right under it you'd die from the heat caused by the air being compressed under the meteor. If you were further away you'd just see a mile-high wave of debris coming straight at you, but it would be completely silent because it would be travelling faster than sound.

Obviously this one wasn't that big, but if I were anywhere near ground zero I wouldn't be stopping to make distinctions.

Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

DugMachine:Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

Let's put it this way, if it hit NYC, there would be no more NYC. But that's the extent of the damage, a large city being wiped out.

How the heck they missed this meteor and we didn't heared something by someone official from the goverment ro something similar?

Because most governments in the world are more interested in petty squabbles and posturing than they are in helping us reach the next level of societal development- the awareness of what goes on in the vacuum around our planet and the ability to affect it.

Exius Xavarus:I knew it was coming. I was reading just last week that an asteroid was going to enter Earth's atmosphere on February 15th.

Truth be told, I was more worried it would hit one of our billion and a half satellites and have its trajectory changed to crash right into Earth.

As I posted before, it is not even remotely related to the big one.

Meteorites slam into the planet all the time. Usually they are small and enter in remote areas that may have a handful of people for miles. This one just happened to wander into the airspace of a town.

DugMachine:Pretty crazy! Question for physics people or anybody knowledgeable on the subject

If the other one that's passing by earth were to hit would it cause that much damage? Some seem to think that if it did we'd go the way of the dinosaurs but to my knowledge that was miles and miles long. The one passing earth is about 150 feet in width so... yeah. Just not sure exactly how bad a 150ft meteor would be.

Something like 5-7.5 megatons of tnt or roughly 1000 times the Hiroshima bomb. Events on that scale happen roughly once every 1000 years and the last one happen in 1908 in Siberia. So you can breath easy it's not likely to happen again any time soon.